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QUITTING But, NEED to have a pill!! WHAT?
What do you do when you want to quit the pills, but you have this unbelievable feeling you HAVE to have a pill??? What do you do??? I've tried eating.. but just makes me feel sick.. I've taken aspirins... I don't know what to do...
Go to an NA meeting.....call a friend....go to church.....workout......pray......
The mental cravings are the worst! I agree with actingbrandnew. You need after care. NA/AA meetings, church, come on here, try to keep busy. Or example, mornings are hard for me. I would wake up,and pop 2 pills. Every morning! Now, I get up, take a vitamin, jump in the bath, have breakfast & take the rest of my vitamins. You need to change your schedule. Also, listen to music when you get cravings. Good luck!
If you get rid of the pills you won't want one near as bad. Knowing they are there makes it harder
I guarantee I am going now place but to bed.. I am miserable already. I am tired.. I wish I could just sleep.. for about a month. I am praying.. but, I'm surely not going anywhere with everything hurting and feeling miserable.it was hard just to go to walmart to get what I needed....I'm so tired..
Take a hot bath. Play music. Watch a comedy. Start a journal. Try the Valerian Root. Read a good book. Anything to take your mind off this. Take this minute by minute.
I asked in your other post. Do you have support? Hubby, friend, etc?
I asked in your other post. Do you have support? Hubby, friend, etc?
It took my whole town to get me off the pills. I had to fess up and make everyone watch me. The more people on my support team, the easier it became. ActingGrandNew is right on, get yourself to a meeting, church, therapy, all of it. Do as many things a day you can to free yourself. Addiction is an I thing, recovery is a WE thing. I know how miserable life on pills can be, put 10000% into this, you will not regret any of it. Recovery is actually pretty fun. Get ready to meet some new friends and make this happen. Fight like your life depends on it, because it does.
NA/AA, you keep hearing it but trying to go at this solo is damn near impossible to do. The more help in your corner the better your chances of quitting. A lot of people here have been through it and are offering good advice. The only thing I would add is short walks or bits of exercise. While the thought of it *****, the reality is it will make you feel better. THe craving for pills is a strong force but it can be over come. I found journaling on here in my first week helped greatly as well as talking through how I was feeling. Good luck to you and keep us updated.
I agree w the above!! get support. I have the feeling of needing a pill so I take vitamins when I get up...my mind accepts that!! good luck and know you can do this!!
Hey SuzzQ, how are you doing? The first days are really rough, but it does get better, it really does. There is some great advice above and support is here for you - always. Hang in there....and let us know how you are, ok? You CAN do this :))
I don't have anyone for support... I have God.. but, not a regular person. Though my sister talks to me about it. She says it is a good thing I am doing. and she is praying for me.
Well, you have all of us! It sounds like your sister is trying to support you. Sometimes it's just hard for people who haven't been through this to understand. This is a big reason why so many folks go to NA and/or AA meetings. You can get some great face to face support from other recovering addicts as well as learn tools for your recovery. Hang in there. You are only as alone as you let yourself be.
Hi, I am sick.. I had to go out today, so I took a tiny piece of the norco. I cut up one pill into a bunch of pieces with a pill cutter. I don't think this is even doing anything at all.. but, try we much. I ache from head to toe and don't feel right. My head feels weird and hurts really bad. I don't want to take asperins until I eat something, don't want to mess up my stomach, its bad enough already. Strange thing though, the diarrhea went away! But I have stomach cramps, but not too too bad. Everything hurts... i just ache.. my legs hurt a lot! I have to just not even take the tiny little pieces of the one pill.. I allowed myself one pill... because I feel I am missing something... like this teeny tiny piece might help? I'm not sure, and I think it is just prolonging the whole thing. But, I have been reading things other people have said about long term aching and things like that.. doesn't sound good to me... I'm going to keep praying. I am sure God wants me to completely stop taking these pills, so that is what I must do... I have to get rid of all these pills!!! Throw them in the dumpster where I can't get them back out.. to try to get my one pill cut into a million pieces... lol... I'm so tired.. I wish I could just go to sleep for a month..
I can go to church, but I'm not telling them that I am getting off pain pills!! That would be way too embarrassing.
It is not embarrassing. It is humility and you need to get humble with someone. You have been doing this for years. Something has to change hun.
Can you hit any meetings?? I know this is very hard..For me as a long time user this takes A LOT of work..I had to change my whole life around. Can not go around people that still use or drink, had to change all the places and situations that can cause triggers at any given moment. I just celebrated a Year clean from 3 drugs I c/t but it is still hard not to crave once in a while. What I have to do if I have cravings is just try to redirect myself real fast and I mean real fast. It takes a lot of life style changes to do this. For me I did my Dones with Adderral for the last 12 years to get Buzzed up and get everything done at once and had to have it done like Yesterday. SO that is where I just had to accept these things getting done in baby steps and they do get done and even better. Since I started using off and on at the age 14 I never thought it was wrong but just a party or everyone was doing it..The last 16 was were it got way out of control and I could never walk away like I did before..My addition got so bad that I can not even work in the nursing field any more due to Medications being around. This becomes the hardest thing we have to do is CHANGE are life around for the better and have Patience enough to know it will get better. Set up all boundaries in your life and learn to know what cause the triggers. Then work on that and make it work for you..I wish you the best and I know you can do it.
SuzzQ I also see that you have been here since 2009, so I am sure you have read a lot of other stories on here and how people work out there sobriety from day to day..Keep on going forward..OK.
Bless
SuzzQ I also see that you have been here since 2009, so I am sure you have read a lot of other stories on here and how people work out there sobriety from day to day..Keep on going forward..OK.
Bless
As long as you keep the pills around, nothing is going to change, your addict mind is leading you to them over and over. 1 is too many, 1000 isn't enough. You need to get off the merry go round and start diving head in, going to meetings, addiction therapy, whatever you need to do. One day, one hour at a time if you have to.
You'll feel lousy for a short while, but compared to the rest of your life, it's nothing. You WILL eventually feel like yourself again. It takes time and work.
You'll feel lousy for a short while, but compared to the rest of your life, it's nothing. You WILL eventually feel like yourself again. It takes time and work.
Remind yourself of all the reasons that you're doing this! Do you REALLY want this (or would you rather go back to constant suffering & feelings of worthlessness/angst) ? If you do want it, it will take a milisecond to open your hand & let them drop into the bowl. Get determined. You're much stronger than you know. You CAN do this. Steel yourself & take the leap. You'll feel relieved & more committed if you can take this step. Otherwise, the fact that they're around will pull you under. This is just how it works, my friend.
You still have pills around??I most of missed that..Now that is the WORST so called trigger of it ALL!!!!
Just get rid and try to move on..You will like your new self..
Just get rid and try to move on..You will like your new self..
Yes definitely flush the pills And cut your sources! Call your doctor, dentist or whoever supplies them to you and tell them you are an addict and do not want to take them anymore. Doing this will help you so much mentally and is a very big step in getting off the merry go round. I See you have been on here before let's make this time stick ok? Fight the good fight because you are worth it!
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